For those interested, chapters can be found here: https://shonenjump.viz.com/platinum-end-chapters

The first chapter is 70 pages with the first 4 in color. It does prominently feature suicide and is rather graphic so I can see why Viz chose to publish it separately from their anthology.

My commentary:

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It was interesting but I feel like it's missing something compared to both Death Note and Bakuman. It just doesn't grab me the same way. Mirai's backstory just a variation on Cinderella, the angel's set-up seems like a variation on a death tournament. The only thing that really struck me was the "be happy" and I'm still not really sure how the aunt's "suicide" turned into "be happy". Happy to be alive, I would get but it was not that, it was the need to be happy in and of itself. I'm assuming for the time being that it's a side effect of the angel knocking out one of her competitors but I guess we'll see. I dunno, at the moment, it kind of feels like something Nanamine from Bakuman would create but I'll give it a few more chapters.

For those interested, chapters can be found here: https://shonenjump.viz.com/platinum-end-chapters

The first chapter is 70 pages with the first 4 in color. It does prominently feature suicide and is rather graphic so I can see why Viz chose to publish it separately from their anthology.

My commentary:

Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide

It was interesting but I feel like it's missing something compared to both Death Note and Bakuman. It just doesn't grab me the same way. Mirai's backstory just a variation on Cinderella, the angel's set-up seems like a variation on a death tournament. The only thing that really struck me was the "be happy" and I'm still not really sure how the aunt's "suicide" turned into "be happy". Happy to be alive, I would get but it was not that, it was the need to be happy in and of itself. I'm assuming for the time being that it's a side effect of the angel knocking out one of her competitors but I guess we'll see. I dunno, at the moment, it kind of feels like something Nanamine from Bakuman would create but I'll give it a few more chapters.

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